Infant with altered consciousness after cannabis passive inhalation

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-83

  Zarfin, Yehoshua ^a   Yefet, Enav ^a   Abozaid, Said ^a   Nasser, Wael ^a   Mor, Tamer ^a   Finkelstein, Yoram ^b  

^a BARUCH PADEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altered consciousness; Cannabis; Child abuse; Infant; Passive inhalation

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CEFTRIAXONE; DRONABINOL;

ANOREXIA; APATHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRONABINOL TOXICITY; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; LETHARGY; LIGHT REFRACTION; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; PASSIVE SMOKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESTLESSNESS; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION; TOXICITY TESTING; URINE CULTURE;

CANNABIS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; MALE; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84858439933     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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